Introduction Students that live in the West Greenwich area have multiple high schools that they have the opportunity to attend. Students are blessed with the opportunity to go to either Exeter-West Greenwich Regional High School, the public high school that also attends to students from Exeter, or go to the Greene School, an independent charter high school. The Greene School is centered around developing personal, community and global stewardship using a curriculum that is based on environmental science and technology that affects the natural world. Within this school students learn to develop and integrate their strengths in local and global communities, becoming an important role in both. This school has an emphasis on promoting ethic excellence, and character development for moral and social responsibilities. Students are prepared to be informed, skilled, active and innovative community leaders who will become the “environmental stewards of the future.” Students will understand and apply the concept of stewardship as the careful and responsible management all: human, physical, biological and financial resources (Mission). Students Even with only 127 students, the Greene School still is able to make a name for itself because of the students overall proficiency. After taking the NECAP assessment, in 2012, 11th graders scored 90% proficient in reading, which is outstanding to the rest of the state at only 79%. These students blew out the rest of the other state with their science scores being 49% compared to 32%. The students are above average in writing, scoring 54%. Even in the Greene School's weakest subject, math, the students scored higher then the rest of the state with 38% compared to 34% (InfoWorks). These students are excelling over the rest of the state. The success of these students can be correlated to the small size and wealth of the area. Only 17% of the students are eligible for subsided lunch which is shocking compared to the state's rate which is 46% (InfoWorks). All students are given special attention with the outstanding 1:11 teachers to students ratio (InfoWorks). There are also 23% of students are receiving special educational services. The small size of the school gives teachers a student body that has 94% attendance rate (InfoWorks). When students come to school and have extra attention from the teachers, test scores skyrocket.
"Mission Vision." The Greene School. The Greene School, n.d. Web. 31 Oct. 2013.
"InfoWorks! Rhode Island Education Data Reporting - RIDE.ri.gov." InfoWorks! Rhode Island Education Data Reporting - RIDE.ri.gov. InfoWorks, 8th June 2013. Web. 31 Oct. 2013.
Introduction
Students that live in the West Greenwich area have multiple high schools that they have the opportunity to attend. Students are blessed with the opportunity to go to either Exeter-West Greenwich Regional High School, the public high school that also attends to students from Exeter, or go to the Greene School, an independent charter high school. The Greene School is centered around developing personal, community and global stewardship using a curriculum that is based on environmental science and technology that affects the natural world. Within this school students learn to develop and integrate their strengths in local and global communities, becoming an important role in both. This school has an emphasis on promoting ethic excellence, and character development for moral and social responsibilities. Students are prepared to be informed, skilled, active and innovative community leaders who will become the “environmental stewards of the future.” Students will understand and apply the concept of stewardship as the careful and responsible management all: human, physical, biological and financial resources (Mission).
Students
Even with only 127 students, the Greene School still is able to make a name for itself because of the students overall proficiency. After taking the NECAP assessment, in 2012, 11th graders scored 90% proficient in reading, which is outstanding to the rest of the state at only 79%. These students blew out the rest of the other state with their science scores being 49% compared to 32%. The students are above average in writing, scoring 54%. Even in the Greene School's weakest subject, math, the students scored higher then the rest of the state with 38% compared to 34% (InfoWorks). These students are excelling over the rest of the state. The success of these students can be correlated to the small size and wealth of the area. Only 17% of the students are eligible for subsided lunch which is shocking compared to the state's rate which is 46% (InfoWorks). All students are given special attention with the outstanding 1:11 teachers to students ratio (InfoWorks). There are also 23% of students are receiving special educational services. The small size of the school gives teachers a student body that has 94% attendance rate (InfoWorks). When students come to school and have extra attention from the teachers, test scores skyrocket.
"Mission Vision." The Greene School. The Greene School, n.d. Web. 31 Oct. 2013.
"InfoWorks! Rhode Island Education Data Reporting - RIDE.ri.gov." InfoWorks! Rhode Island Education Data Reporting - RIDE.ri.gov. InfoWorks, 8th June 2013. Web. 31 Oct. 2013.